Performance! Performance! Performance!

The Meetup

You guessed it… This meetup is all about performance.

As end users get more and more impatient, and sites get bigger and more complex, performance is becoming a greater challenge than ever. Consider that Google now recommends that mobile web pages load in ONE freakin’ SECOND (or less), while apps are actually growing in size and complexity. This meetup is all about tackling that challenge.

The Plan

9:00 - Networking

9:30 - Performance Tools by Ran Wahle

10:30 - The Soapbox

11:00 - Behind the Scenes by Itamar Segev

12:00 - Light Lunch, courtesy of SAP

12:45 - Optimizing the Mobile Experience by Amit Zur

The Speakers

Amit Zur, a frontend developer from Capriza, is going to talk about creating a native-like experience on mobile devices. He’s going to give an overview of the challenges, with a special focus on optimizing the mobile browser.

Itamar Segev, a development Scrum Master at SAP, developed a performance measurement tool based on Node.js and WebKit. He’s going to explain what’s really going on “behind" our JavaScript code and how the browser actually builds our application. He's going to talk about browser internals and how they affect performance and the user experience. And finally, he’s going to show us how understanding what the browser is doing behind the scenes can help us optimize our resource loading and minimize the loading time of the application.

Ran Wahle, a Senior Consultant at Sela specializing in web technologies, will introduce a number of performance measurement tools he uses to debug and optimize web applications and will show us how we can use them to understand and solve performance bottlenecks.

The Soapbox

We’re going to open up the floor for a series of short talks where YOU can briefly:

• Introduce an interesting JavaScript library or framework

• Demonstrate a useful FED tool

• Explain an idea or concept that has helped improve your FED apps or skills

• Test an idea for a talk you might want to give in the future

The soapbox is experimental. The idea is to give a quick intro to something revolutionary, or maybe extremely useful, or even totally esoteric. These talks can be at most 5 minutes.

But there’s a catch: There’s limited space, so you have to let me know in advance. I can’t guarantee that everyone who asks will get to talk, but I’ll do my best.

If you want to speak from the soapbox, send me a brief description of what you want to talk about.

The Appendix

Prizes! (Need I say more?)

I'm already planning the next meetup. If you have a topic you want to talk about, let me know. And if you have an idea but you're not completely sure about it, I can help you figure it out.

See you all soon!